1.Â Donors Gallery

Note:

As of 2010, the following section is several years
out-of-date. Donations from the past several years appear
here.

The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and
would like to publicly thank them here!

Contributors to the central server
project:

The following individuals and businesses made it
possible for the FreeBSD Project to build a new central
server machine, which has replaced freefall.FreeBSD.org at
one point, by donating the following items:

The following individuals and businesses have generously
contributed hardware for testing and device driver
development/support:

BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
development work, to say nothing of the network access
and other donations of hardware resources.

Compaq
has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD
Project. Among the many generous donations are 4
AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20, AlphaServer
2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz Personal
Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations, and more!
These machines are used for release engineering, package
building, SMP development, and general development on
the Alpha architecture.

Ernst Winter (Deceased)
contributed a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This
will hopefully increase the pressure for rewriting the
floppy disk driver.

Tekram
Technologies sent one each of their DC-390,
DC-390U and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter
cards for regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers
with their cards. They are also to be applauded for
making driver sources for free operating systems
available from their FTP server ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/.

Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a Symbios
Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with
Ultra-2 and LVD support, and the latest programming
manual with information on how to safely use the
advanced features of the latest Symbios SCSI chips.
Thanks a lot!

Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> donated
four various ATM PCI cards in order to help increase
support of these cards as well as help support the
development effort of the netatm ATM stack.

Special contributors:

BSDi
(formerly Walnut Creek CDROM) has donated almost more
than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
section of the FreeBSD
Handbook for more details). In particular, we
would like to thank them for the original hardware used
for freefall.FreeBSD.org,
our primary development machine, and for thud.FreeBSD.org, a
testing and build box. We are also indebted to them for
funding various contributors over the years and
providing us with unrestricted use of their T1
connection to the Internet.

The interface
business GmbH, Dresden has been patiently
supporting JÃ¶rg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> who has often preferred
FreeBSD work over paid work, and used to fall back to
their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet connection
whenever his private connection became too slow or flaky
to work with it...